Help! Mess-- Merging 4PCs' libraries into 1 common library on Home Server!

I am helping a friend of mine set up his new Windows Home Server. He currently has ITunes running on 4 different Windows PCs with different ITunes libraries (although there are tracks that appear in some or all of these libraries). These libraries were all located in their default locations, and the "Keep my ITunes folder organized" option was selected. The idea was to take all the contents of each ITunes library and copy them into one folder on the Home Server, and then set that folder up as the Itunes library location for all 4 windows PCs. I changed the Itunes library location for each user account on each PC to the folder on the server, and then I did a 'Consolidate Library'. However, each Itunes is reporting a different number of tracks. At this point I started 'trying things' to correct this (and I can't tell you exactly what I had tried because I was really tired at that point, but it did involve some cutting and pasting). Well now there are duplicates (and triplicates, etc) of many of the tracks on top of the original problem! Does anybody know what I need to do to fix this now?

Since you don't have a Mac, that link to Dupin won't help.
I think the best thing to do is to see what duplicates you have in Windows Explorer. You'll have to go through them one by one, but listing them alphabetically should help.
Once the tracks are OK on the server, you can start iTunes with a new blank library and add all the tracks in. Just drag the top-level folder over into the new itunes library. You can create a new library by holding down the shift key while itunes starts, and browsing to the server so the ITL file will be placed there.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1589
You could also try a program like TuneRanger that will manage multiple libraries, but it's not free. In fact your firend is going to have to buy something like this if he wants all 4 PCs to access one itunes library ITL file at once.
Otherwise he is only going to be able to open itunes on one PC at a time. If he tries to use the same ITL file on a 2nd or 3rd PC, he will get a message that the itunes library is in use.

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